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Jim Berney(Visual Effects & CG Supervisor)
Since joining Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1996, Jim Berney has served as visual effects and CG supervisor on a number of notable projects Most recently, Berney supervised the creation of over 500 shots for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." Work for the film included creation of the photo-real, fully CG characters: Mr. and Mrs. Beaver; Fox; and Maugrim, the wolf lieutenant who leads army of the White Witch. In 2004, Berney was visual effects supervisor on the IMAX version of the state-of-the-art performance capture feature "The Polar Express." He was responsible for supervising the conversion of over 780 shots from the already beautiful traditional 2D version of the film into the large format 3D IMAX version.
In 2003, Berney was the visual effects supervisor on "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions," having recently completed his supervisory role on "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," the second installment of the acclaimed trilogy. He was also supervisor on the international phenomenon "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Under his direction, more than 100 Imageworks artists created the CG characters Fluffy, the Troll, the Centaur and the exciting Quidditch sequence, complete with Harry and fourteen of his friends in an entirely synthetic environment.
Berney served as CG supervisor for "Hollow Man" (2000 Academy Award® nominee, Best Visual Effects), responsible for the Burning Man/Elevator Sequence. This heart-stopping sequence involved creating a photo real "burnt" version of Kevin Bacon, and incorporating him into a miniature/pyro set with digital set extensions.
Previously, he was invaluable as CG supervisor on the feature film "Stuart Little" (1999 Academy Award nominee, Best Visual Effects), having been involved in the development of the costuming technology. These cloth dynamics enabled the design, building, and simulation of 13 costumes for three CG characters. Berney also supervised the development of the versioning and publishing system and co-supervised the development of the lighting pipeline, which facilitated the seamless integration of the Stuart Little character into live action scenes.
Before "Stuart Little," Berney served as CG supervisor on the feature film "Godzilla" and was lighting lead on "Contact", "Starship Troopers"(1997 Academy Award nominee, Best Visual Effects) and "Anaconda" , where he developed rendering tools and the pipeline for photorealistic lighting techniques.
Prior to joining Imageworks, he worked at MetroLight, where he was a research technical director and part of the software development team, authoring flocking software for "Batman Forever" and procedural natural phenomenon lighting software for "Under Siege 2" and "Mortal Combat."
Berney began his career working for DARPA as an ADA programmer for a large software engineering consortium. He received his Master's degree in Computer Science from California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, specializing in the research and development of a new global illumination paradigm. He holds two undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Economics from the University of California, Irvine, focusing in AI research. Berney also studied computer architectures at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
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